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Franklin's Tower
May 1, 1981
Hampton Coliseum

One of the best played versions from one of the best played shows in the Brent era---ever.
16
Shakedown Street
March 24, 1981
Rainbow Theater

15+ minutes of funk w/extended overlapping vocal rounds of "just gotta poke around", etc. before jam Brent adds cool "fuzzy" SFX
1
Big Railroad Blues
Oct. 30, 1971
Taft Auditorium

Check out Keith on this one! He's never been so up front before & right outta the gate!!
21
Cream Puff War
July 3, 1966
Fillmore Auditorium

Peppy early version w/Jer belting out lyrics & Pig doin' some nice work on organ. No archive copy exists; got this off 30 Days of Dead-worth the DL!
9
Passenger
May 7, 1979
Allan Kirby Field House

Super-charged EARLY Brent version rips and tears and shreds. Final jam before the coda is the best they ever did in this tune. Goes to 11.

Comments

Franklin's Tower
April 19, 1982
Baltimore Civic Center

Listened to this again and realized it needs to up voted. There's so much other crazy good stuff in the Ravenspace show that this Tower gets overlooked.
Dark Star
Feb. 13, 1970
Fillmore East

New convert here. What I love about this is the "space" section doesn't get all feedback/screechy or "spinal tap" silly (think of Derek Small's 'free form jazz odyssey' that they play at the festival where they get second billing to the puppet show), and instead it gets spookily quiet, ethereal, mysterious, and never annoying, and then it slowly, gracefully builds back into a lovely jam section that then spills over into a flat out kick-ass jam and into nearly countless musical landscapes thereafter. Just a unique, confident, ever-changing and always interesting Star that's climbed easily into my Top 5 faves of all-time. Thanks to all for the multiple rave reviews that finally got me curious enough to get DP 4 and check it out.
Jack Straw
April 16, 1978
Huntington Civic Center

Very Upvote worthy!
Estimated Prophet
April 16, 1978
Huntington Civic Center

Mother of mercy. Jerry's solos are deep, deep deep on this one. One of the best boards ever taboot.
Franklin's Tower
Sept. 29, 1977
Paramount Theatre

Bobby can't resist adding a nice couple of China Cat licks right before Jerry sings the second verse.